In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Zev Myerowitz Jr., Chief Medical Officer of Healios Integrative Health and co-founder of Cape Integrative Health. A third-generation chiropractor and licensed acupuncturist, Dr. Myerowitz addresses the critical gaps in modern, reductionist healthcare—where hyper-specialization and coarse diagnostic testing leave millions of suffering patients "gaslit" and without clear answers.

Key Takeaways:

• The Fallacy of Hyper-Specialization: Modern medicine often isolates body parts rather than viewing the body as an interconnected system. Treating a localized symptom without identifying compensatory movement patterns elsewhere in the kinetic chain leads to recurring, unsolved pain.
• The Diagnostic Resolution Gap: Standard tests (like NCVs or EMGs) often lack the fine resolution needed to detect early-stage neuropathic or fascial entrapments. Patients with severe, mechanically reproducible pain are frequently misdiagnosed with vague labels like "nociplastic pain" or "fibromyalgia" simply because a machine cannot capture the tissue dysfunction.
• The "Quiet Miracle" of Being Seen: Real healing begins when a provider takes the time to listen, put their hands on the exact source of pain, and validate the patient's lived experience. This restores trust and shifts the patient out of a state of helplessness.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Marcia Jones, NP, a veteran healthcare professional with over thirty years of experience and the founder of Next Level NP. After climbing every rung of the nursing ladder—from nursing assistant to primary care practice owner—Marcia experienced her own terrifying, undiagnosed health crisis. When conventional specialists offered no answers beyond antidepressants, she discovered functional medicine and transformed her career.

Key Takeaways:

• When the Provider Becomes the Patient: Experiencing dismissive care and "normal" lab results during a personal health scare highlighted how severely the traditional medical system fails women suffering from complex, chronic symptoms.
• The Unique Advantage of Nurse Practitioners: Built on a foundation of bedside nursing, NPs possess a deep capacity for compassionate listening and patient education. Removing 15-minute visit constraints allows NPs to lead the future of integrative, root-cause care.
• Symptoms Are Clues, Not Histrionics: Rather than isolating symptoms or handing out prescriptions for anxiety or depression, functional care views every symptom as a clue pointing to underlying imbalances—such as Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction or hidden insulin resistance.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Dr. Dmitry Shestakovsky, DPT, co-founder of Midtown East Physical Therapy in New York City. With over 25 years of physical therapy experience, Dr. Shestakovsky discusses the revolutionary paradigm shift transforming modern rehabilitation: Fascial Counterstrain.

Key Takeaways:

• The Evolution of Fascia Science: Modern research shows fascia is far more than an inert structural wrapping. Richly innervated with nociceptors, fascial strains surrounding organs, nerves, and blood vessels trigger reflexive muscle spasms and postural compensations throughout the body.
• Treating Beyond the Site of Pain: Chronic pain often stems from distant anatomical structures. For example, persistent shoulder or neck pain may be driven by fascial strain in the lateral pleura of the lung or spasmed spinal medullary veins pulling the first rib out of alignment.
• Fascial Counterstrain vs. Traditional PT: Unlike conventional physical therapy models that rely primarily on local massage, stretching, heat, and exercise, Fascial Counterstrain utilizes precision cranial scanning to identify the specific system causing dysfunction, delivering gentle, indirect releases.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Dr. Frances Meredith, MD, an experienced physician who transitioned from traditional allopathic infectious disease and primary care to functional medicine at Stribling Springs Wellness and co-founded MyConcussionDR. Driven by her own health collapse under the time constraints of corporate medicine and a severe, life-altering sports concussion experienced by her son, Dr. Meredith shares why treating the whole person requires stepping away from rushed, 13-minute insurance visits.

Key Takeaways:

• The Shift from Dysfunctional to Functional Medicine: After watching patient encounter times shrink from 24 minutes down to 13 minutes—while dealing with her own severe hypertension, joint swelling, and stress—Dr. Meredith stepped away from corporate primary care to practice true root-cause medicine.
• Patients as Equal Panel Experts: In Dr. Meredith’s functional practice, patients are welcomed as equal decision-makers whose personal intuition, lived experiences, and priorities guide their diagnostic and healing plans.
• Change Your Story, Change Your Health: Words and long-held internal narratives (such as unresolved childhood trauma) signal our DNA every second. True physical healing cannot fully occur until a patient severs ties with chronic, disempowering illness stories.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Susan Spear, a health educator, practitioner, and founder of Nutritious Insight. Following the tragic loss of her 30-year-old son after his long struggle with bipolar disorder, Susan dedicated her life and practice to the pioneering field of metabolic psychiatry. She breaks down the critical physiological connection between brain energy, mitochondrial dysfunction, and mental health conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. T

Key Takeaways:

• Mental Health as a Metabolic Problem: Mental health conditions and metabolic disease are deeply interconnected, sharing root causes such as chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and insulin resistance. Over 90% of American adults are metabolically unhealthy, driving a parallel global mental health crisis.
• Cerebral Hypometabolism: Brain cells can become insulin resistant at the blood-brain barrier. When insulin cannot enter to assist glucose uptake into the mitochondria, the brain experiences a localized energy crisis, triggering or worsening neurological and psychiatric symptoms.
• Protein and Fat Are Essential: Unlike essential proteins and fatty acids—which the body cannot produce on its own—carbohydrates are not biologically required for human survival. The body can synthesize necessary glucose internally through gluconeogenesis.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Dr. Jade Fricks, PharmD, AFMC, owner of Fricks Pharmacy and founder of Total Wellness. Coming from a multi-generational family of independent pharmacists, Dr. Fricks experienced a major personal health crisis in 2019. After being shuffled between specialists without real answers, she realized how heavily the conventional medical system relies on symptom-masking pharmaceuticals. Dr. Fricks shares how stepping into functional medicine allowed her to reverse her own autoimmune disorder and build a groundbreaking, next-generation practice that combines pharmacy expertise with root-cause functional medicine to resolve chronic symptoms, optimize gut and thyroid health, and help patients safely taper off unnecessary medications.

Key Takeaways:

• Experiencing the System as a Patient: Experiencing a severe health crisis firsthand exposed the systemic flaws of conventional specialty care. Even with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, navigating specialists to find root-cause solutions required intense self-advocacy.
• The Pharmacist's Advantage in Functional Care: Pharmacists possess deep pharmacological expertise. When functional medicine interventions restore a patient's underlying physiology, pharmacists are uniquely positioned to help patients safely taper down or eliminate medication doses in collaboration with their primary care providers.
• Asking "Why" Instead of Naming a Diagnosis: A clinical diagnosis like Hashimoto's or an autoimmune condition only names the symptom, not the cause. Functional medicine investigates why the immune system has become hyperreactive and what root drivers are triggering the body to attack its own tissue.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Stacy Naugle, a clinician with over thirty years of experience in metabolic and lifestyle medicine, and the founder of Executive Metabolism. Stacy addresses a critical gap in women's health: why high-achieving women over 40 continue to experience inconsistent energy, brain fog, and weight resistance despite exercising extreme discipline.

Key Takeaways:

• Physiology, Not Discipline: High-performing women between 40 and 60 often blame themselves for energy dips and brain fog, assuming a lack of effort or willpower. In reality, these symptoms stem from underlying perimenopausal metabolic shifts that standard blood panels regularly fail to catch.
• The Five Forces Framework: Rather than treating isolated symptoms, Executive Metabolism assesses five core systems: Fire (mitochondrial energy generation), Fuel (nutrient assimilation and usage), Focus (brain glucose/insulin sensitivity), Flow (nervous system parasympathetic recovery), and Freedom (rewriting limiting internal narratives).
• Brain Glucose & Decision Fatigue: The human brain accounts for only 2% of body weight but consumes 20% of the body's energy. As perimenopausal insulin resistance develops in the brain, it conserves energy for vital functions, resulting in afternoon decision fatigue and word-retrieval brain fog.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Noreen Connolly, PhD, NP, a veteran nurse of over thirty years and the founder of The IV Hub Wellness. After decades working on a major Boston cardiology floor, Noreen recognized that traditional hospital care focuses primarily on reactive band-aids rather than early prevention. To fill this crucial healthcare gap, she built a boutique wellness model specializing in advanced nutrient IV therapy, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), metabolic weight loss, and comprehensive lab testing.

Key Takeaways:

• Uncovering the "Normal vs. Optimal" Gap: Millions of adults suffer from brain fog and fatigue despite receiving "normal" lab results. Comprehensive lab panels look beyond standard baselines to identify hidden metabolic triggers, such as elevated insulin levels that quietly lock in body fat.
• Beyond Hangover Cures: Modern IV therapy serves as a powerful wellness tool. High-potency infusions like NAD+ support cognitive clarity and cellular repair, while classic formulas like the Myers' Cocktail deliver magnesium, Vitamin C, and B-complex to replenish depleted systems.
• Protecting Bone and Metabolic Health: Transitioning off inconsistent estrogen patches to steady-state hormone pellets ensures systemic levels remain high enough to safeguard bone density.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Dr. Zaman Shah, MD, MBA, an internal medicine physician with over 15 years of frontline clinical leadership and the founder and CEO of MEDWAY INC. Tired of witnessing administrative overload, fragmented data systems, and documentation burdens erode the human connection between clinicians and patients, Dr. Shah built MEDWAY—a clinician-guided AI infrastructure designed to seamlessly embed directly into existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms.

Key Takeaways:

• Built by Clinicians, for Clinicians: Unlike distance-designed software built solely by tech developers, MEDWAY uses a practicing physician think-tank to identify true clinical friction before engaging engineering teams.
• A Friendly Enabler for EHRs: MEDWAY is not designed to replace existing EHR systems. Instead, it acts as a silent, plug-and-play AI layer for small-to-midsize and specialty EHR platforms, eliminating the massive cost of building AI tools from scratch.

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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Barron interviews Dr. Kenneth Ro (Dr. Rowe), an emergency medicine physician with over 35 years of clinical experience and founder of Back In The Game Men. Having treated over 170,000 emergency room patients, Dr. Ro shares his transition from managing late-stage cardiovascular tragedies to intervening decades earlier before unforced errors occur. He breaks down the "triple caretaker effect" facing men in their late 30s and 40s, the psychological friction of midlife identity shifts, and how his RECLAIM Method acts as a systematic guide to help high-performing men restore vitality, eliminate chronic disease risks, and master the second half of life.

Key Takeaways:

• The ER Blind Spot: Heart attacks and strokes do not happen overnight; they silently build across 10 to 20 years of unaddressed metabolic strain. Conventional medicine excels at reactive crisis intervention, but fails to track proactive trajectory trends in midlife.
• The Triple Caretaker Effect: Men in their late 30s and 40s often experience severe, chronic stress while juggling the demands of raising children, caring for aging parents, and managing demanding careers. This high-stress "sandwich" frequently leads to silent cardiovascular decline.

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